Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-11-12
laSk aud soaipins knife in hand follow

Sn o'SAJ aot oi ucnuiro cruelty nls shy- age ounnIng could invent His hand has never stayed at even inc mothers breast, and with ex;aiic joy, he has dashed the brain ot infants torn from taeir mothers corpses. His squass ;o hendl-h Siee have held high carnival over scenes oc carnage too brutal for description.
 Tue vsr os the border agsinst wild nature snd wilder mec, has ayc- bsee
 vsged with the rifle as we'll as the ax and the pick. No plain too wide. no canon too deep, DO mountain too bich. no desert loo dry bus the pioneer has ex- plored 1t, and it he has !isten the dust another has been eager to take his
 plsce. You know and feel 6nd under stand what mean, bus 10 tbs peopIs of
 older states this Is mere poetry and
 orstoFy, Rn oft-told tale of a helf forgot
 ton pssi- h shame be it said, so dagsn
 era:e have become the dcscendspts ot the sturdy neu vino died as Cocassei.
 ID the M1hRyk md Gt Wyoming. that
 they have a sickiy sympathy for the
 murdesous sEvages, who have deal.
 death and destruction without ua asbHted
 fury. Washington fought them on the
 Allegheny: Jackson in the Eyersladss:
 Harrison ID the sEEmDs Of Iadigns;
 Boone cu the dark and blocdy crorud
 oi Kentucky; Carson ID the Rio GranGc,
 Custer was murdered in the bad lands
 snd Canby massGc:sd ia the Lava Beis.
 The day Of heroes is not passed. Thou
 sands of others equally worthy are not
 forgotten and thousands of unreInem-
 ba-ed braves, have gone down In thls
 contest "CnnumbeTed. unhonored and
 unsUGg." What would tLGt sturdy
 Baptist minister vino lead company
 against hias Philip couple of caEtdT-
 lee ago and who j. said 10 have fought
 llke a friend and pTsyei Ike Saint,
 think CT this modern efIeniBRsc sym plthy with the noble red man. end the 1.esner sGesr a. tue bender whites! ! fEzCy he WOuid turn ever in h.s grave
 and reacl for his rife. lis nams was Miles, PagsOn and Captain Miles. Was
 he eu sEces!sr ot yours, General? But
 of al theae tribes Of I5Gia there were
 none like sle deadly Apache. He has ! slgays been rObber, R murderer, a thief. gn assassin. a vsrtsble pirate of the nOuntaiuS. He nsysr labored. he | rarely hunted game, fish, he never Gta, home or hRbltatio2, hs had nos. He | rOamed wherever bls qGess for blood led 'hIm. From the head waters cf the Ar kansas, south Gs far ss ihe City ol M -xico, aud from the stsked plsIns to | the Colorado, over B territory eight hun | drei 10 les wide and twice Cs long, he
 has Eaided from time memorial L1rk- l ing 5molg the rocks of the Sierra NaiIe ! cr I1otLeT mountains, he hss ever been 1 ready 10 sTcop coTn upon Inc feriils 1 valleys like the bosom Of cestrUciIoL. l. has ever been death either fgUn Eis
 savage or tbe difficulties Of the trail to follow him into hIs mountain Er;reut. | Savage Indians have algsys locked U 9On 1 him es q wild nau. NJ treaty could ever l bind hlm, To gratitude res.r4Iu hIm, There is Do wild bs3s. 60 conpE-s hin; r.. The Tat.ltsa6ke warns Ee:cT5 te l strikes. Tue ta,antuls poisons in self defense. Crafty, cruel Oud c0wsIdiY, he is a ta.cf by instinct srd murderer by
 habit. He is no. satisfied simply wiiL
 blood, but he glpats over the pain and | sufIsr!ugs of his tortured vlctIms. In this | presence I cam describe Lis hoFEid m decsncies. They are Eel kuOgn to you | Of The cid families of thIs Territory
 thers IS hsrdiy one, but has cause fOi deepest molrciug. The CT mes c! the
 assassins and thugs of Indis, were sc d!Ebollcal that thsir names must 6e Used to describe then. Yet the forms! l sec he'd their vIc.lms t0 death in fog
 Ee;fal sleep, and the latter produced death by s.TsngDlatIon No word bu Apache can be used tO describe the bo-
 r5fs of thsss soullsss fisDd=. All around Us are the evidences Of tEe.r 6estructIcs Ind violence. They are to be seen IT the ruins cf deserted baoi;a:l0ns, h sh; . ! a L.. atsr
 stone imyls su-cts, which eyiiedce . dc-ae population Of highly cIyilizes
 people ot whom we have DO history, arC no tradition, and whose Only vastiges Er' 1 the gucieut villages scattered thick.
 here and ther.. from she Rio Gtsnde |, he Colorado. They age to be seen agGii
 ID the deserted homes of the Ciifi-dwell r. which ars to be found on she per 2 | yaLdicniar sides of every oail)n 10 ATiz . cnz, where perhaps these people hcpe'
 1 to take refuge and escape the mRi hgE' ' l of the deadly Apache, rkey laid vast Q md d9gasta,ed great country. Tbicl
 zLs cultivated like & garden, and mas
 l sacred and drove Ous grGst people, bu, n isf. oysr 1t the Gesois'Irn Ut tee desert a They gre tO be found iu the traditions c . shc Mission nAd Pueblo Indians, tL I Pina's, he Pspagoe's. tke ZlnI's arl ! l o.kers, against whom they have wage ! fo- centuries deadly rad for Piunde = | and blood. Such was the history c o inc regions before the incoming Ot tb I wh.teq. Early in the lG h century pica |. | D-iee.z. 6ec;?,es of that great Je5c' |. ,.9s shsping, which covered sEe wcrl vi h missionaries, came down the SHGt Q Cruz valley. They were welcomed b = ths Pins and other pueblo milan !, I,nt more than ore of the expedition - were stopped, aud devoted heroes fouD 7 msrtyrdom by the deadly Apache. The f ioGad a home and protection EoTeFe
 here ia she valley under tbe protectlo o cr the Friendly IndianF, large numbers ( ' vhoia they brought within iEo pale ' inc church. They established mission :, and erected churches Of splendid erchl
 tec,urc, some yet to be FeeB, as Ss . Xavier Del Bsc. others are ID IGiDs, as [
 Tu-nacscgrs. Spanish and Mexico Y people followed, and guided. and guar' ed !y Dresidios in Tempo de! rsy, II
 yejIoy of the Rio Grsu9e, oi the Sa Y Pedro and the Santa Cruz wsT5 coVsre . v-1th hccks snd herds. To pTote i, Ersinst the Apache mBGrauders, requl ,t ed constant vigilance, and frequent we
 ths expediilons sent out egGinst theI v The struggle for Mexicsu inds2encsnt s epd the republic, brought in their on b posts aud this border was lstt to defer !. itselt as bcst 1t might. The Apac'
 ruused ID fiendish slee, believing hImse x a coooueror. Toe great herds cf cntt < and horses were slaughtered or sto!e .a setfjemeuts oa the Rio Grande, the St - Pedro, and the Santa Cfnz, except tho
 situated near to the friendly or pueo ~ Iodisns. were abandoned. snd the who o couutry wss given over to the Apsch' " Travel was impossible, except in lar,